Today we held another talk with Rondeel and Den Ouden chicken-catching company about the plans they agreed on with us to start catching Rondeel hens in the more humane "Swedish- method". Rondeel is the first company to show serious … [Read more...]

The lobby letter that EonA wrote and sent to the Dutch House of Representatives (in preparation for the General discussion on animal-welfare on February 7th) resulted in Minister Schouten promising a critical dialogue about the future of … [Read more...]

The Leeuwarden calf market has bought a mobile water tank in order to facilitate giving water (with electrolytes) to each calf on the market before she or he is loaded for transport. The managers of the market organized this after our … [Read more...]

Last year this slaughterhouse bought a pneumatic stunner from a German company and started to offer its' clients the option of having their cattle stunned before being cut for slaughter. This was a breakthrough, as we have never seen … [Read more...]

The team from Eyes on Animals and Animal Welfare Foundation were at Tekirdag slaughterhouse in Turkey today. This slaughterhouse made a very important improvement - it stopped live hoisting the cattle. It has replaced the horrible … [Read more...]

The South-Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety hired Eyes on Animals to give three of their officials a two-day training course on the European legislation protecting animals on the farm, during transport and during slaughter. The … [Read more...]

Eyes on Animals was invited by Lely to give a talk to 70 large dairy farmers from all over the world (Russia, Canada, USA, Japan, Denmark, Estonia, Germany and Poland). We were asked to give a talk about consumers ' concerns regarding the … [Read more...]

After a visit from Eyes on Animals inspectors, poultry slaughterhouse Remkes has made some technical changes in the conveyer belt (that brings the crates with live birds towards the Anglia Autoflow stunner) to reduce the vibrations, sound … [Read more...]

Today a team from Eyes on Animals visited pig farm Dykhoeve in Herwen. Farmer Jeroen keeps his pigs here in a more natural environment. The pigs walk in fields where they can dig the ground with their snouts and search for food. The pigs … [Read more...]